Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! How was your St. Patty’s Day?! Mine was spent like a true Irish gal…
…getting burnt.
Matt and I met up with some people for some beach volleyball. It was a bit chilly, though, with the sun only coming out when we were leaving. Oh well. Can’t complain when we’re playing beach volleyball in the winter. San Diego for the win!
Saturday night we did more “celebrating” by going out and drinking some Guinness while wearing green. That’s all you’re supposed to do on St. Patrick’s Day, right?
I was excited to finally have another excuse to wear my green skinny jeans from Halloween. Meanwhile, Matt was excited to start breaking in new running shoes that he bought, which were also green. Speaking of new running shoes…
Have you ever seen something so obnoxiously beautiful in your life?! I wanted my next pair of running shoes to be Brooke’s (just to try the brand), but I couldn’t resist these colorful ASICS Gel Nimbus 14 running shoes.
They were on extra sale at RoadRunner—AKA, they were discounted on top of a clearance price. I’ve been really enjoying RoadRunner’s clearance center that sells “lightly loved” (barely worn) and “heavily loved” (self-explanatory) shoes. I wasn’t even planning to get new shoes, but since Matt was…and it was 2 pairs for $90…I couldn’t not.
He got the Saucony Guide 6, which I’m a bit jealous about because I’ve always wanted green shoes. But seeing as how my new pair has every color of the rainbow? I suppose they’ll work. 😉
And to end the colorful weekend, Matt made us some green pancakes for dinner with a bit of Bailey’s in them…because why not? They were pretty good too! They made the apartment smell like cake, which I am ALWAYS cool with.
Workout: Now I’m off to spend some quality time with a treadmill. My 35-Minute Gradual Speed Increase Run is in the books for today’s workout. I think I’ll try out my new shoes, even though I’m sure I’ll regret it afterwards, since they’re not quite broken in yet.
Did you do any “Irishy” things this weekend to celebrate?
What color are your running/fitness shoes? Do you gravitate towards crazy ones? Pretty ones? Simple ones? I like the crazy, obviously.
I want someone to make me green pancakes! And those shoes are awesome!!
Haha thanks!
You did fun things! I felt weird all day like I was not embracing our little bit o’ Irish heritage! Next year…I want to try green beer someday and go see the Chicago river died green.
Uh ya…I never knew the Chicago river was died green until Saturday when Matt informed me. So strange. And he put some green food coloring in a beer of his. Kinda grossed me out for some reason. I support your decision to drink green beer though. Did you at least wear green!?
Pancakes with Bailey’s? Oh yes. This has to happen someday…
Love the shoes. You can so pull them off. My running shoes are pink/grey/black aka boring and typical. All my running stuff is pink/black though, so I just kind of went with it. I didn’t pick them because of the color though. It was just a coincidence.
Nice! So you probably can match pretty well. Every time I go running, I look weird because all my clothes are different colors. I just go with it at this point.